Showing posts with label urbanism. Show all posts
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Interior Decorating
"The starting point of all our thinking was the legacy that this project will leave. We want to protect the astonishing and unique natural assets of this region for future generations, by creating a local zero carbon economy. At the same time, we want to sensitively use these same assets to support and energise the community living here already. It is a fine balance, but we hope our careful consideration of water management, solar power and waste management offer a sustainable future for the Dead Sea.
Jordan is a country without large innate wealth or petro-dollars, whose greatest resource is human ingenuity. We are confident that our Dead Sea masterplan sets a good example to all nations in the measures we must all take in new developments in order to survive."Neil Deely, Director
Metropolitan Workshop
more info @ dexigner - Dead Sea Masterplan Proposes Sensitive Sustainable Design in Unique Landscapeinterior designers
Interior Decorating
Urban morphology, the special attention is given to how the physical form of a city changes over time and to how different cities compare to each other.
A Canadian city called Mississauga is trying to create a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly downtown, but the large scale of block patterns identified the key problem, which to compare with other major cities in the world."Because great cities have short blocks and lively sidewalks, Mississauga wants a downtown grid that lures pedestrians – and Amacon's Parkside Village will help launch the vision", an article "Beyond Desity" which has been publiched in Newspaper Toronto Star.
and the diagrams above demostrate:
- MISSISSAUGA: “Long blocks and virtually empty sidewalks”
- BARCELONA: “La Ramblas is the main north-south promenade”
- COPENHAGEN: “City features a car-free zone called the Stroget”
- LONDON: “The Mayfair and Soho districts south of Oxford St”
- NEW YORK: “Midtown Manhattan south of Central Park”
- PARIS: “Streets were designed by Georges-Eugne Haussmann”
- ROME: “East of the Tiber River bend that points to the Vatican”
- SAN FRANCISCO: “Market St splits the central city into two grids”
- TORONTO: “Between Queen and College Sts east of Bathurst”
House Construction
"incredibly slender, soft and languid. It curves up at the edges like a manta ray. We wanted it appear as a piece of land art that relates to the park”.
House Construction
Governors Island lies half a mile off the southern tip of Manhattan. For more than 150 years, the island served as a military post and in 1966 became home to the U.S. Now, the island is to turn into a public park. 5 design proposals are choosen to be the best design for the park - The Island at the Center of the World.
"...the awesome view, the recreational respite, the quiet, and the romance of the island that we seek to amplify." Hargreaves Associates / Michael Maltzon Architecture Inc.
"an autonomous 'rogue' territory devoted to harbor life, exertion & immersive physical exposure to weather." Field Operations / WilkinsonEyre Architects
"This is not a landscape proposal. This is a development strategy." Romus Ella Architects (REX) / Michele Desvigne Paysagistes (MDP)
"Where else but in this cosmopolitan World City par excellence will contemporary green culture accelerate?" West 8 / Rogers Marvel Architects / Diller Scofidio + Renfro
".. not only inventing a landscape, but rather transforming a precious resource, an island in the city." WRT / Urban strategies, Inc.
more info: Slate, official park website
interior designerdesign interiorRemodeling Interior Design
“The completed buildings are striking expressions of the rise of an eco-architecture on a grand urban scale.”Kenneth Powell
Richard Rogers Partnership
Daimler Chrysler
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany
Photo: © Katsuhisa Kida
Remodeling Interior Design
"The urgency of climate change makes the rebirth of our cities crucial to the planet, and its people.
After a century in which cities were treated as problems - dirty, crowded, dangerous - the 1997 general election marked a turning point with a new government that saw cities as the only sustainable solution to the growing demand for housing.
There has been a measurable cultural shift... read more"
Richard Rogers
The Guardian
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